From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: call-process blocks the active thread Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:01:13 +0300 Message-ID: <837ex9znba.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504854099 15525 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2017 07:01:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 07:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 08 09:01:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDI1-00037B-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDI4-0001BX-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDHt-0001B8-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDHo-0002Py-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDHo-0002Pe-Ng; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2764 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dqDHn-0001cA-QN; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 03:01:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:00:42 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218004 Archived-At: > From: Elias Mårtenson > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:00:42 +0800 > > As it turns out, ‘call-process’ hangs all of Emacs while the external program is run. No, it hangs the calling thread, and the other threads wait for the calling thread to yield. To avoid that, use start-process instead. This is not a bug.